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How to sign: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
"he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life";
Similiar / Same: position
Categories: state
Within this category: bastardy, caste, command, dignity, election, equality, face, footing, high ground, high profile, high status, holy order, leadership, legal status, low status, nationality, nobility, ordination, pedestal, rank, retirement, slot, social station, standing, toehold
How to sign: a state at a particular time
"a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations";
Similiar / Same: condition
Categories: state
Within this category: abnormality, absolution, astigmatism, atmosphere, atonicity, automation, brutalization, celibacy, circumstance, climate, comfort, condemnation, curvature, danger, decline, deification, despair, difficulty, discomfort, dishabille, disorder, disorderliness, diversification, dominance, dryness, emptiness, encapsulation, ennoblement, environmental condition, exoneration, eye condition, facilitation, financial condition, fruition, fullness, guilt, hairlessness, health, homelessness, hopefulness, hospitalization, hyalinization, identification, immunity, impaction, improvement, impurity, iniquity, innocence, ionization, irradiation, lactosuria, light, lubrication, malady, mechanization, mode, motivation, mummification, mutism, nakedness, need, niche, noise conditions, nomination, normality, orderliness, participation, pathological state, place, polarization, prepossession, preservation, protuberance, psychological state, purity, purity, regularization, reinstatement, repair, rustication, safety, sanitary condition, saturation, scandalization, serration, silence, situation, ski conditions, soundness, standardization, stigmatism, submission, subservience, susceptibility, tension, tilth, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, urbanization, vacuolization, virginity, way, wetness
